I have a directory called /user/local/
inside which i have several files of the form, jenjar.dat_1
and jenmis.dat_1
. There is another directory /user/data
inside which there are two subdirectories of the form, jenjar
and jenmis
. I need a Python code that would move the jenjar.dat_1
into the jenjar
directory of /user/data
and similarly, jenmis.dat_1
into jenmis
directory of '/user/data
.
I guess the os
module would work for thus but I'm confused. Most of the questions here do not show a Pythonic way to do this.
EDIT: I have found the solution to this
destination = '/user/local'
target = '/user/data'
destination_list = os.listdir(destination)
data_dir_list = os.listdir(target)
for fileName in destination_list:
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(destination, fileName)):
for prefix in data_dir_list:
if fileName.startswith(prefix):
shutil.copy(os.path.join(destination, fileName), os.path.join(target, prefix, fileName))
This should do the trick
srcDir = '/user/local'
targetDir = '/user/data'
for fname in os.listdir(srcDir):
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(srcDir, fname)):
for prefix in ['jenjar.dat', 'jenmis.dat']:
if fname.startswith(prefix):
if not os.path.isdir(os.path.join(targetDir, prefix)):
os.mkdir(os.path.join(targetDir, prefix))
shutil.move(os.path.join(srcDir, fnmae), targetDir)